The Archive · 1941

GERMAN CLAIMS

The claims by both Russia and regarding the casualties they have inflicted upon each other run into big figures, but, while the Soviet appears to have some respect for the truth, the Germans most de-Cidedly have not, Moscow claims that the Germans have lost 2,000,000 men, killed, Wounded and taken. The Germans make no admission of any sort in this connection, though independent reports coming out of the Balkans state that endless numbers Gf trains carry the wounded into Rumania Where even the schools have been transformed into hospitals, with the result that it is unlikely that schooling will be recommenced after the summer holi proceeding along the enormous Xow in It is inevitable that in fighting such as is

astern Russia the losses on both sides must Germa proved so much more reliable the German high command, wi patently lying, that the former have be regarded as trustworthy, Thus, at the cost of two million men, Germans have succeeded in occupying, a cording to their story, an area of 810,000

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